. . . invites diplomats’ kids to a party!
. . . rather than deporting diplomats in tit-for-tat retaliation, [Putin] instead invited the children of U.S. envoys to a New Year celebration for kids held at a concert hall on the grounds of the Kremlin.
Peeved president stumbles again.
via Russia Threatens to Expel Diplomats, Then Backs Off – WSJ
Let’s hear it for the wise longshoreman, medaled by LBJ:
Quotation by Eric Hoffer: The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.
The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Not bad, eh?
NY version, that is:
In my view, the guilty party here isn’t so much either President Obama or Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the New York Times.
The UN vote — “disgraceful,” as Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon put it — was in fact the culmination of a successful, year-long editorial campaign by that newspaper.
It was a campaign aimed precisely at taking Israel’s security decisions out of the hands of Israel’s democratically elected leaders and placing those decisions, instead, in the custody of a council whose members include Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Communist China and Venezuela.
Not a good replacement, no, no, no.
Namely D. Axelrod on how Trump can govern in view of his cabinet picks’ differing with him on “some key issues”:
“This is a great, unanswered question,” said David Axelrod, who was a top adviser to Mr. Obama. “It seems that Trump does not come to this with a well-developed philosophy so much as a well-conceived marketing strategy.
“Now there will be a behind-the-scenes battle to fill in the void that will mirror the battle between factions of the Republican Party. It is not clear how these disputes in the battle to define Trump will be decided.”
Wuxtry, wuxtry. Pot just called kettle black. To put it another way, substitute his onetime boss, as that it seems Obama came without “well-developed philosophy so much as a well-conceived marketing strategy.”
A strategy, it should be noted, devised by D.A. himself.
Source: Donald Trump’s Cabinet Picks Disagree With President-Elect on Some Key Issues – WSJ
More from Boff, this time objecting to Cardinal Burke and four other cardinals’ quizzing Francis on what he said in “Amoris Laetitia,” about communion to the divorced and remarried:
The pope cannot be judged, that is the teaching of the Church.
He’s a purist, I guess.
Source: Liberation Theologian Boff: “Francis is One of Us” – OnePeterFive
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A clarification: Time was when Boff lived off criticizing the pope, as a commenter noted:
The poor earth!
Whoever speaks today of the poor, also has to speak of the earth, because it, too, is now being plundered and abused. “To hear the cry of the poor,” that means to hear the cry of the animals, the forests, of the whole tortured creation. The whole earth cries.
Source: Liberation Theologian Boff: “Francis is One of Us” – OnePeterFive
. . . Lashing out at his personal enemy.
The anti-Israel U.N. resolution is a defining act of Obama’s Presidency, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.
Blithe Spirit 